In Netflix’s Sabrina series, Baphomet sits at the center of the witchcraft school that half-witch Sabrina Spellman attends. He serves as a symbol of Satan, or the “Dark Lord,” as Sabrina calls him, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The statue resembles one created by the Satanic Temple and the most well-known drawing of Baphomet, which was created in 1856 by occultist Eliphas Levi, according to the BBC. Both the temple’s statue and the Sabrina statue feature a winged creature with a horned goat’s head and a pentagram on its forehead. They both also feature two young children standing next to Baphomet and looking up at him, according to Broadly, and show a Baphomet that doesn’t have breasts — two notable differences from the original drawing created by Levi.

Malcolm Jarry, the temple’s cofounder, said the temple holds a copyright that was filed with the Library of Congress. "Statues and their subsequent representations are protected,” Jarry told Broadly.

“In fact, the U.S. Postal Service had to pay a hefty fine for their unauthorized use of the representation of a statue — ironically, a representation of the Statue of Liberty.… If a resolution cannot be worked out, we will take aggressive actions to protect our copyright,” Jarry said.

Greaves implied to Broadly that the issue goes deeper than copyright infringement. He said "one of the central missions of the Satanic Temple has been to fight back against witch hunts and irrational mob panics.” He believes there are "signs of a Satanic Panic revival today, and as Satanists we need to do all we can to fight back against negligent and harmful representations."

In an interview prior to Greaves’s threat of legal action, Sabrina production designer Lisa Soper told VICE the similarities between the show’s Baphomet and the temple’s statue are “kind of a coincidence.”

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"The issue isn't the appropriation of Satanic religious symbols to portray beliefs and activities that bear no relation to what the practitioners of Satanism believe. We don't own Satanism and we can only try to educate people as to what Satanism means to those who identify with it when we're countering irresponsible fictions that feed real-world moral panics," Greaves told Teen Vogue in a statement. "It's one thing that there's another ignorant television portrayal of a Satanic Panic-style Satanic cult that engages in cannibalism, but it is another thing that they've used our unique and copyrighted Baphomet monument as the central icon of that cult. We spent a year and a half designing and financing our monument, which has become a central image of our own organization. To see it appropriated as "the Sabrina monument" while associated with cannibalistic rites is unacceptable. We owe it to everybody who identifies with us to rectify this situation. Netflix needs to remove the image of our monument from their show and they are not to use it in future seasons."

Soper said there are hundreds of iterations of Baphomet, and that he’s always depicted with people around him. “So depicting his children with him, that kind of stuff, and those kinds of elements are all kind of the same," Soper told VICE. "But it's no different from, in my opinion anyhow... from any other of the mass amounts of iterations of him that have been around." Soper said Sabrina’s depiction of Baphomet is “wholly original,” and that she “cannot compare ours with all previous depictions.”

The name Baphomet dates back to 1100 when the Knights of Templar were tortured during the Inquisition and confessed to worshipping a “heathen” idol named Baphomet, the BBC reported. Different Baphomet depictions are taken from various times in history. For example, most depictions of Baphomet show the figure doing the “two-finger salute,” which means to occultists, "as above, so below” — words drawn from the popular Renaissance and Reformation writings of Hermes Trismegistus, according to the BBC.

Regardless of how many iterations there are of Baphomet, Greaves told SFGATE, the similarities between the Sabrina statue and the official temple statue are “distressing,” because members of the temple worked on their own official design of the icon for more than a year. Still, Greaves has faced backlash on Twitter, which he responded to on Sunday.

“I'm amazed that anybody is confused as to why we would seek legal remedy over Sabrina using our monument,” he wrote. “Would they be as understanding of a fictional show that used a real mosque as the HQ of a terrorist cell? A fictional Blood Libel tale implicating real world Jews?”

One user responded, “Why would the religious rights of Lucien Greaves be any different from the religious rights of anyone else?” Netflix has yet to issue a public statement.